the song formerly known as...

I'm sitting here, listening to my MP3s on the random setting when "When Doves Cry" by Prince starts playing. This reminds me of a couple of summers ago when I re-discovered the song and then every time I turned around it was playing or someone else mentioned it. For example, I was talking about how it was the best song ever recorded that didn't included a bass, and the person I was talking with turns on the radio, like magic, the song is playing. Then that same day, I saw the episode of the Simpsons where Milhouse, after meeting the another Milhouse, proclaims, "So this is what it's like when doves cry." It was a very strange day. Reflecting upon these events, I realize how utterly useless they, in fact, are but that doesn't stop him for looking back fondly (because to look back in anger is just silly).

This is a quote from the W.B. Yeats' poem, The Second Coming. I'm posting because it is the source material from the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which in turn is the inspiration for the title of the Roots album by the same name. I didn't know that. Anyway, here's the quote:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.